Means for removably attaching ornaments to shoes



J. G. SAMUELS MEANS FOR REMOVABLY ATTACHING ORNAMENTS TO SHOES June 12, 1928. 1,673;025

Filed Aug. 51, 1925 Patented J une 12, 1928.

UNITE STATES JULIAN G. SAMUELS, UNIVERSITY CITY, MISSOURI.

MEANS FOR REMOVABLY ATTACHING ORNAMENTS TO SHOES.

Application filed August 31, 1925. Serial No. 53,574.

My invention relates to means for securing ornaments to shoes. Eertofore it has been the practice to secure an ornamental bucket or the like to the shoe after the shoe has passed through all of the manufacturing operations, the buckle being sewed by hand to the front gore of the shoe and thus secured permanently. Aside from the amount of hand labor involved in this practice, and the cost thereof, the extra handling of the completed shoe required thereby involves a risk of soiling the shoe and a risk that the orna ments may not be exactly placed. Besides, many of such ornaments are in the form of openwork buckles with an underlay or insert of leather exposed to view through the openings in the buckle, such underlay or insert being worked into position with some difficulty after the buckle is sewed. to the shoe.

The principal objects of the present inven tion are to simplify and reduce the cost of applying such ornamental buckles, to provide for the removal and replacement thereof and to provide for the easy removal and re placement of their underlays. The invention consists principally in a fastening device comprising a member adapted for attachment to the shoe and a second member cooperating therewith and adapted for attachment to the ornament. It also consists in the parts and in the combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein like symbols refer to like parts wherever they occur,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of .a shoe provided with a detachable fastener embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, the ornament being shown removed from the shoe;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through the detachable fastener showing the tool for offecting the disengagement ofthe cooperating parts of the detachable fastener;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the underside of the ornament; and

Fig?5 is a perspective view of the member of the fastener that is secured to the shoe.

The shoe illustrated in the drawing is a common type of pump A provided with a gore B at the instep. Mounted on this instep is one of the members C of my detachable fastener, which member is of suitable size and shape for convenient attachment to the gore l3 and for cooperation with the second member I) which is mountedfon the ornament E. A suitable form for the first mentioned member C is illustrated in the drawing, wherein it comprises a fiat and comparatively wide middle portion'6 and narrower end portions 7 whose side margins 8 are doubled back, but said doubled back portions being spaced far enough from the body portion and far enough. from each other to receive and form slideways 9 for the second member D. Preferably this first mentioned member C is made of a single flat piece of metal that has four transverse slits cut in the side mar gins thereof to permit the folding over of the marginal parts 8 of its end portions 7;,and the marginal parts of its middle portionsare perforated, as at 10, to receive the thread 11 by which they are secured to the gore B of the shoe.

The second member D of the fastener is preferably a fiat strip of metal with its end portions 12 offset and adapted to be soldered, riveted or otherwise suitably, secured to the back of the ornament E. The offsetting of this member has the effect of spacing the middle or body portion thereof away from the back of the ornament; and this middle portion is of suitable width tointerlock with and slide in the guide way 9 formed therefor by the folding back of the side margins of the end portions of said first mentioned member C. To permit this sliding engagement to be effected, one of the bent end portions of thefsecondrnember D is notched, as at 13, in one or both of its sides to reduce its width suifi'ciently to permit the notched portion to'pass between the edges of the folded portions of the l first member; The other bent end of said second'member D is preferably left of full width so as to'serve as a limiting stop for the end of the firstm'ember C and consequently as a means of positioning the ornament E.

In order to lock the two members C and D of the detachable fastener in positiom the middle portion of the first member Chas an elongated tongue 14 struck up therefrom, as by an ordinary punching operatiolnand preferably with'th'e tip of the tongue bent beyond the plane of the body of said member. The second member D is provided with a small hole or perforation 15 in the bodyportio-n thereof in such position as to register with the tip of said tongue when the two members of the fastener are interlocked in proper relation to each other. By this arrange ment, thetip of the tongue 14 automatically enters said hole or perforation 15 and thereby constitutes such an obstruction to theedge or Wall of the hole as to prevent the accidental Withdrawal or disengagement of the second member from the first. To effect such disengagement, it is only necessary to press the tip of the tongue 14 far enough for it to clear the sides of the hole 15, whereupon theseeond memberl) can be slipped endwise to disengage it from the first member C. This operation can be very easily eiii'ected after the ornament is on the shoe, and the drawing, Fig.6, shows a very simple tool for effecting suchdisengage-- ment. This tool is adapted to be insertedbetween the back of the ornament E and the fastening member mounted thereon, D, whereupon the laterally extending end portion 17 of'the too-l may be readily pressed against the tip of said tongue 14.

The ornament E may be of any suitable type but is preferably in the form. of an openwork buckle with an underlay or insert of leather 18. Preferably the insert has notches 19 in its top and bottom margins in position to receive the bent end portions 12 of the second member D of the fastener. By reason of the material of the underlay 18 being flexible, it is easy to thread it into proper place with its notched portions 19 straddling the bent end portions Likewise, the underlay of leather or other material can be very easily placed in the open work ornament before the ornamental member 1s applied to the shoe; whereas heretofore such underlay could not be placed in position until after the ornament had been secured to the shoe, and it was then a comparatively difficult operation and entailed the risk of soiling the shoe. Another advantage is that byv making the fastening device interchangeable, one ornament may be replaced with another. Likewise, the ornament itself is easily detached from the shoe, the underlay thereof may then be easily removed andreplaced with another underlay and the same ornament restored to its place.

Obviously, the device" hereinbefore described admits of considerable modification without departing from my invention and I do not Wish to be restricted to the details specified.

What I claim is:

1. The combination with an ornamental buckle or the like of a detachable fastener therefor, said fastener comprising a member with offset end portions secured to said buckle and constituting a back bar therefor and a second member slidably engaging said back bar, said back bar having a hole therein and said second member having an elongated tongue slitted and struck up therefrom to form a spring detent that is arranged to detachably engage said hole.

2. The combination with an ornamental buckle or the like of a detachable fastener therefor, said fastener comprising a member with offset end portions secured to said buckle and having a hole in its body portion and having one of its offset end portions of reduced width next to said body portion to permit engagement therewith of a second memberhereinafter mentioned, and a second member provided along the middle portions I of its side margins with thread holes for attachment to a shoe or the like and having the end portions of its side margins folded over the side edges of said first mentioned member to slidably engage the'same and having an elongated spring detent adapted to detachably engage said hole.

3. The combination, with an open-work buckle having an underlay of fiexible mate rial with a notch in the edge thereof, of a detachable fastener therefor, said fastener comprising a member with offset end portions secured to and constituting the back bar of said buckle and a second member slidably engaging said back bar, said backbar having a hole therein and said second member having an elo-ngatedtongue slitted and struck up therefrom to form a spring detent that is arranged to detachably engage said hole, said underlay extending between the body of said buckle and said back bar with an end portion of said back bar in said notch. j

Signed at'St. Louis, Missouri, this 28th day of August, 1925.

JULIAN sanuniis 

